Moral Maureen

Maureen Dowd's column on Russia is such standard anti-Bush rhetoric she probably created most of it by cut-and-paste. But it does have one new bit, making it extra ugly--comparing the U.S. and Iraq with Russia and Georgia.

A lot of people try to pretend that everyone used to fight the good fight against the Soviets in the old days. But not only was the cold war full of people claiming moral equivalence--we can see this type of thinking still hasn't gone away.

(Christopher Hitchens has a piece in Slate on how this is nothing like Kosovo.)